Never Grow Old and Extra Ordinary among the first titles announced for Galway Film Fleadh 2019
Posted: 4th June 2019
The Galway Film Fleadh has revealed its very first titles in its 31st Festival Programme, with Screen Ireland projects Extra Ordinary and Never Grow Old receiving Irish and International Premieres at the festival this year.
Screening on Saturday 13th July, black comedy Extra Ordinary, directed by Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman, follows a driving instructor who must use her supernatural gifts to save a lonely man's daughter from an aging rock star hoping to use her for satanic sacrifice. This must-see comedy starring comedian Maeve Higgins, Will Forte (Saturday Night Live, Nebraska) and Barry Ward (Maze, Jimmy’s Hall) received its World Premiere at SXSW 2018. Filmed last year in Kildare, Tullamore and Wicklow, Extra Ordinary is produced by Katie Holly, Mary McCarthy, Yvonne Donohoe and Ailish Bracken for Blinder Films, in co-production with Umedia with funding from Screen Ireland, UMedia and Inevitable Pictures.
The International Premiere of Never Grow Old will be the closing film at this year’s Fleadh on Sunday 14th July. Shot in Connemara and written and directed by Ivan Kavanagh (The Canal), Never Grow Old, an old-fashioned western starring Emile Hirsch and John Cusack, taking place on the infamous California trail during the 1849 gold rush, where anything can happen and loyalties spin like the barrel of a gun. When a ruthless gang of outlaws terrorise a sleepy frontier town, the local undertaker, Patrick (Emile Hirsch), faces a profound moral dilemma and as the death toll rises and without law or religion to turn to, Patrick must find a way to defeat the outlaws as they turn their brutal attention to this family. Never Grow Old is produced by Jacqueline Kerrin and Dominic Wright of Ripple World Pictures in conjunction with Nicolas Steil of the Iris Group and Jean-Michel Rey of Rezo Productions, with Screen Ireland and Creative Europe MEDIA support, and is further supported by Quickfire Films and the Luxembourg Film Fund, along with Eurimages and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI).
The Fleadh will take place from the 9th–14th of July 2019 with the full programme revealed on 25th June. Tickets are currently on sale via: www.galwayfilmfleadh.com